I don't know, momentum could propel the stock for a while. I wouldn't consider it a long term play, but it could be a Yahoo type of play. I made a lot of money on that in the 90's.

Wow, I had the very same computer. I upgraded it with a 20MB hard drive and used it as a retail store POS system until 1997. The computer's power supply was in the monitor! Didn't it also require 2AA batteries to maintain bios settings?

I Agree. When I first got my Droid, I was going to install a free game until I saw it wanted access to by contacts list. The notification screen during app install is quite clear and easy to understand. There is no excuse for not reading it.

That sounds like my home Win box. I guess it is pushing 10 years. At Work, I invoice on a PII-300 Compaq deskpro.

If a site is available for free and is ad supported, the customers (that is, the ones buying the product) are the advertisers, the users are the product.

We already do that, it's called the Homeland Security Act.

If the person goes from point A to point B, a distance of 1.6667 miles, in less than a minute, then they are going faster than 70 miles per hour. They have to be. There is no way round that.

Two more words...

George Tiller.

There are many more words, but just assume I can rattle off at a dozen Christian terrorist attacks against abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood offices without resorting to Wikipedia.

And just to save myself a round of back and forth with an apologist for these acts of Christian terrorism, let me pre-emptively give my likely response: the Ku Klux Klan. They don't exactly burn those crosses for warmth, you know...

Until it got dark, and your dad told you to turn the light off because it was messing with his night vision.

you can't have security AND privacy. The government has always had the ability to spy on it's citizens and I'm sorry but the future is going to be a ZERO privacy world, there's no other way social structures can be protected without full disclosure. Besides, everyone knows that if you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't care who sees what.

Nullify acts of congress? Aren't the amendments acts of congress as well? I think that's a pretty bad idea... remember it was federal law that fought the states when the south was trying to keep blacks as second class citizens.

So at first I felt like the kid was overreacting. Parents (or those in loco parentis, which I'll get to in a moment) have a legitimate need-to-know when it comes to what's going on in their kids' lives.

However, according to the article, this kid's mom doesn't have custody. The grandparents do, and so this doesn't seem to be due to divorce or other "ordinary" situations that would cause a parent to lose custody of their own kids. In other words, something is seriously messed up here, and so while the fact that this is a mother/son thing is good for grabbing ratings, it's not really all that relevant to the matter at hand.

Moral of the story: RTFA.

Pole Position & other 2-D car racing games... made it so much easier to pass and overtake other cars...

I'm watching my 3 year old boy play that with a 8-bit 2-D Lighning McQueen game (in an inflatable McQueen car he sits in, with a built-in steering wheel which is all kinds of awesome)... and I'm thinking he's going to take Driver's Ed before I give him the keys to my car...

That said, it's an interesting control perspective. I wouldn't mind having a chase camera as one of many views while actually driving.

Hmm... this doesn't look at all appealing to me.

As far as I can tell, this only works if you can accurately recreate the exact circumstances for each run, because under normal usage it is quite possible that a refactoring that seems slower, is actually faster but has to process a larger workset. As a programmer I'd be pretty unhappy if my compiler decided to rebel and reverse my O(n^4) refactoring back to the O(n^y) version because I happened to have a smallish y in the first run (so it seemed like an O(n^3) algorithm). Now, for most programs it's not a big deal because you're just reading something from the database. But you better hope the database doesn't get a hiccup or your code may be re-refactored behind your back.

Basically, this looks like IBM's version of Clippy, for programmers.

Microsoft doesn't include them in a default installation, but they do give development tools away for free. Even for their game console.